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RICCARDI, Giuseppe Gatti. The fragile body of the monster. Allegory of social interaction in Cheri Lewis García’s short stories. CELEHIS [online]. 2021, n.41, pp.1-10. ISSN 2313-9463.

The aim of this article is to study the short story work of the Panamanian writer Cheri Lewis García, focusing on stories belonging to two volumes: Abrir las manos (2013) and El hilo que nosune (2019). I will try to show how the use of a certain form of the neo-fantastic by the author creates a discourse that disassembles the preconceived social rational models and offers a critical approach, on an allegorical plane, of the cultural control systems and the spectacularization of contemporary capitalist attitudes. Our work modality, supported by the theoretical tools provided by Baudrillard, Foucault or Debord, among others, proposes a reading of the fictional subject as a monster, “prodigy” according to the classical meaning. The dual approach that is suggested examines, on the one hand, the critique of the materialistic use of the body, and on the other, the disintegration of sociability, represented at the allegorical level by split body identities, as occurs in the first story, or phagocyted identities, as shown in the second.

Palavras-chave : entral American Short Narrative; Cheri Lewis García; Neo Fantastic Literature; Abrir las manos; El hilo que nos une.

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